Silvio Berlusconi’s ex-wife will collect €36 million a year in maintenance
payments after walking out on the former Italian Prime Minister, complaining
that he consorted with minors.

The award — which works out at almost €100,000 (£82,000) a day — is said to be
ten times more than the billionaire media magnate originally offered to
Veronica Lario, the actress whom he married in 1990 after seeing her topless
in a play.

The legal separation agreement, reported yesterday by Corriere della Sera,
comes as Mr Berlusconi prepares for what he hopes will be a political
comeback in elections in February.